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THE GRISTLE, P.06 + SQUARE ONE MAPS, P.14 + ISLAND INSIGHTS, P.16 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES 03-21-2018* • ISSUE:*12 • V.13 PICKFORD CALENDAR INSIDE SONG — and — DANCE From Broadway to Bellingham P.15 SALMON SUMMIT The legacy of Billy Frank Jr., P.08 BEST OF SKAGIT WHAT THE FUNK! Last chance to vote!, Of music and magic, P.25 P.18 Choose Your Own Adventure: 8pm, Upfront Theatre 30 A brief overview of this Backyard Brawl: 10pm, Upfront Theatre FOOD week’s happenings DANCE THISWEEK Contra Dance: 7-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library Ballroom Dance: 7:30-9:30pm, Bellingham Senior 24 Activity Center MUSIC B-BOARD Shantala: 7pm, Presence Studio WORDS 23 Gail Noble-Sanderson: 4pm, Village Books, Lynden Spencer Ellsworth: 7pm, Village Books FILM COMMUNITY March for Our Lives: 10am, Bellingham City Hall 18 Democrats Convention: 10am-2pm, Bellingham High School MUSIC Rock & Gem Club Show: 10am-6pm, Bloedel Donovan 16 Tax Help: 12:30-4:30pm, First Congregational Church ART GET OUT 15 Work Party: 9am-12pm, Squalicum Creek Park Native Plant Sale and Expo: 9am-2pm, Whatcom Community College STAGE Walk for Water: 10am-12pm, Fairhaven Village Green 14 FOOD Carry full jugs and walk the distance women and Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, American Legion Hall, GET OUT children across the world frequently travel to Ferndale VISUAL 12 collect water for daily use at the 10th annual “Walk for Spring Show Reception: 2-5pm, River Gallery, Mount Vernon Alan Friedlob Talk: 3-4:30pm, Deming Library WORDS Water” Sat., March 24 at the Fairhaven Village Green [03. .18] 8 SUNDAY 25 WEDNESDAY [03.21.18] ONSTAGE Take Me to Church: 8pm, Rumors Cabaret CURRENTS DANCE Robert Dubac brings his Scottish Dancing: 7:30pm, Fairhaven Library MUSIC 6 fast-paced, politically Whatcom Symphony Orchestra: 3pm, Mount Baker MUSIC astute show, The Book of Theatre VIEWS MVHS Spring Concerts: 4pm and 7pm, McIntyre Hall, Art of Jazz: 4-6:30pm, the Majestic Mount Vernon Moron, to Mount Vernon for 4 Jonathan Doyle Quartet: 7pm, Sylvia Center for the performances March 23-24 at WORDS Arts Todd Warger: 3pm, Everson Library MAIL McIntyre Hall Daniel Purdy: 4pm, Village Books WORDS 2 2 Creekside Open Mic: 6:30pm, South Whatcom Library COMMUNITY Bruce Holbert: 7pm, Village Books Rock & Gem Club Show: 10am-5pm, Bloedel DO IT DO IT Donovan GET OUT Think & Drink: 7pm, Boundary Bay Brewery WORDS Daffodil Festival: Through March, in and around La Katrina Shawver: 7pm, Village Books GET OUT Conner GET OUT Audubon at the Museum: 1:30-3:30pm, Whatcom World Water Day Beach Cleanup: 12-2:30pm, Museum’s Old City Hall 03.21.18 COMMUNITY THURSDAY [03.22.18] Locust Beach Bingo Night Fundraiser: 6-10pm, the Majestic Pub Run: 6pm, BBay Running VISUAL .13 Exploring the South Fork: 6:30-8pm, Van Zandt Film & Art with Jack Gunter: 2pm, Maple Hall, La 12 ONSTAGE GET OUT # Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Community Hall Wild Things: 9:30-11am, Whatcom Falls Park Conner The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Fitness Forum: 7:15pm, Fairhaven Runners FOOD MONDAY [03.26.18] DANCE FOOD Coffee Tasting: 3pm, Camber Cafe Balkan Folk Dance: 7-9:30pm, Fairhaven Library Happy Hour Thursdays: 4-7pm, downtown Food Not Bombs: 4-6pm, downtown Bellingham WORDS Bellingham Open Mic Night: 7pm, Village Books MUSIC VISUAL Poetrynight: 8pm, Bellingham Public Library Jazz Jam: 5:30-8:30pm, Illuminati Brewing Fourth Friday Art Walk: 5-8:30pm, throughout CASCADIA WEEKLY FRIDAY [03.23.18] Havilah Rand: 7:30pm, Chuckanut Center historic Fairhaven TUESDAY [03.27.18] 2 ONSTAGE WORDS The Book of Moron: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount SATURDAY [03.24.18] ONSTAGE Lauren Danner: 7pm, Village Books Vernon Comedy Open Mic: 7:30pm, the Shakedown Choose Your Own Adventure: 8pm, Upfront ONSTAGE COMMUNITY Theatre The Book of Moron: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount DANCE Trivia Thursday: 5:30-8pm, Trove Coffee Backyard Brawl: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Vernon Skagit Folk Dancers: 7-9:30pm, Bayview Civic Hall THISWEEK 30 FOOD Contact Cascadia Weekly: 360.647.8200 24 mail TOC LETTERS STAFF Editorial B-BOARD Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson ext 260 23 editor@ Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhino, died at cascadiaweekly.com FILM the age of 45 this week at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, Arts & Entertainment leaving only two females of the subspecies—his daughter Editor: Amy Kepferle and granddaughter—alive. “His death is a cruel symbol of ext 204 18 human disregard for nature and it saddened everyone who calendar@ knew him,” said Jan Stejskal, an official at Dvar Kralove Zoo cascadiaweekly.com MUSIC in the Czech Republic, where Sudan lived until 2009. 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One of the most obvious effects is ry Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, when the Earth’s temperature increases because VIEWS Distribution Manager: Florida, and the national March For Our Lives of greenhouse gasses (carbon dioxide, methane, Erik Burge Rear End 4 4 360-647-8200 movement, Bellingham will join the national etc.). Greenhouse gasses effect the Earth by 24: Wellness distribution@ movement by creating a March For Our Lives Bell- trapping heat inside the atmosphere and causing MAIL MAIL cascadiaweekly.com 25: Free Will, Skagit ballot ingham “sibling” march. the Earth to gain heat dramatically. Whatcom: Erik Burge, 2 The goal of this march is to stand in unison Global warming can also cause an increase 26: Crossword Stephanie Simms with the national Washington D.C. march and in storms, such as hurricanes. The main “fuel” 27: Advice Goddess Skagit: Linda Brown, DO IT Barb Murdoch show support for legislative change that Belling- for hurricanes is warm oceans, and since the 28: Comix ham and cities across the country demand. Earth is heating up, oceans will become warmer, 29: Sudoku, Slowpoke Letters We would like to extend an invitation to join therefore creating more hurricanes and other SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ us on March 24 from 10am to 12pm, when we dangerous storms. CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM 03.21.18 30: Spring slurping will gather to rally for peaceful conversation and Some other effects from global warming are: THE GRISTLE, P.06 + SQUARE ONE MAPS, P.14 + ISLAND INSIGHTS, P.16 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES change to address safety in schools. heat waves, more precipitation, shift in seasons, 03-21-2018* • ISSUE:*12 • V.13 .13 PICKFORD CALENDAR INSIDE 12 ©2018 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by We wish to create a space for people of all flooding, drought, higher sea levels, and the # Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly SONG PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 — and — groups to come together, share ideas and meet drying of lakes. 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Examples include: coral reef bleaching 4 In the interests of fostering dialog and a community forum, Cascadia Weekly does Theatre —Isabel Jones, Bellingham not publish letters that personally disparage other letter writers.